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ISRAEL21c
''ISRAEL21c'' is an American online magazine focused on technological and scientific advances made by researchers in Israel, and on covering of Israeli society and culture. The headquarters is in San Francisco. History ''Israel21c'' was founded in December 2000 by two Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs, Éric Benhamou, chairman of 3Com and Palm, and Zvi Alon, one of the founders and owners of Netvision. Alon was born in Israel, while Benhamou was born in Algeria, became a refugee at the time of Algerian independence, and grew up in France. The founding executive vice-president is Larry Weinberg. The two founded ''Israel21c'' in response to the negative news coverage of Israel during the Second Intifada. Magazine The magazine focuses on Israeli achievements in research science, medicine, technology and culture. Weinberg told the ''Haaretz'' newspaper that "We look for any product, patent, technological device, pharmaceutical, company, NGO, event or person that can show Americans how ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éric Benhamou
Éric Benhamou (born in 1955 in Tlemcen, Algeria) was the former CEO of 3Com and Palm. Biography Born into a Sephardic Jewish family originating from Toledo, Spain, Benhamou left Algeria in 1960 with his parents during Algeria's independence war. His family settled in Grenoble, France, where he grew up and attended Lycée Champollion. He continued his studies in Paris and graduated with a "diplôme d'Ingénieur" from École nationale supérieure d'arts et métiers (Ai. 172), the youngest student to receive this degree. He subsequently was awarded a doctorate. In 1976, at the age of 20, Benhamou emigrated to the United States and enrolled at Stanford University. He graduated with a Master of Science degree. 3Com and Palm Benhamou worked as a software engineer for several years at Zilog, a pioneer company in microprocessors, and worked on Z-Net, the industry's first microprocessor based local area network computer system. He went on to co-found Bridge Communications in 1981 whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Online Magazine
An online magazine is a magazine published on the Internet, through bulletin board systems and other forms of public computer networks. One of the first magazines to convert from a print magazine format to being online only was the computer magazine ''Datamation''. Some online magazines distributed through the World Wide Web call themselves webzines. An ezine (also spelled e-zine) is a more specialized term appropriately used for small magazines and newsletters distributed by any electronic method, for example, by electronic mail (e-mail/email, see Zine). Some social groups may use the terms cyberzine and hyperzine when referring to electronically distributed resources. Similarly, some online magazines may refer to themselves as "electronic magazines", "digital magazines", or "e-magazines" to reflect their readership demographics or to capture alternative terms and spellings in online searches. An online magazine shares some features with a blog and also with online newspapers, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of California cities by population, fourth most populous in California and List of United States cities by population, 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of , at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the County statistics of the United States, fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income (at $160,749) and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include ''SF'', ''San Fran'', ''The '', ''Frisco'', and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
